Motivational Quotes

Service

If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

- Warren, Frank F.

Best Quotes about Service

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.

Ruskin, John

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Gandhi, Mahatma

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

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The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Boetcker, William

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No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Albrecht, Karl

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Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

14.

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

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The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

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In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Dix, Dorothy

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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Ligario, Cicero Pro

20.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

Einstein, Albert

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

Voltaire

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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

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You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.

Ortenberg, Elisabeth Claiborne

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The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

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The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Make sure somebody need you.

37.

Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

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He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.

Pike, Albert

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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Hegel, Georg

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

41.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

Jerome, St.

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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Henderson, Nelson

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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Edelman, Marian Wright

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Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

Bhagavad Gita

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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

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Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

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Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.